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#87 - Elad Gil

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

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How to Get Your First VC Funding

Sometimes you just need one of those things and it's good enough. Microsoft actually used to do this in the early days and they similarly never had to raise funding. They took one round right before they went public because of a relationship but fundamentally they just bootstrapped. So I think too often people think that they should be on the VC train when really there's lots of different ways to build a business.

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